One of my New Year’s Resolutions was to post a blog post every day! Clearly I’m already breaking my vow, but let’s start off 2019 with a bang by just saying that I am still in love with heavy metal, and I think that this 2017 song by Unleash the Archers is some of the […]
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Father Damocles plays with Tommy Chiffon tomorrow night!
That’s:
JOHN SILVERS
BLACK ZONE
TOMMY CHIFFON THREE
FATHER DAMOCLES
At the PARK BAR AND GRILL: 2007 W. Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91506
Friday, June 1, 2018
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my response to a really old theneedledrop video
As much as any nerd and music critic, I’m aware of and generally enjoy Anthony Fantano’s music review videos. I haven’t seen ’em all, and I don’t always agree with him or feel a need to obsess about the music he obsesses about, but that’s to be expected–he’s got hundreds if not bajillions of videos. […]
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A New Children of Jack Acid Video, of Sorts
Father Damocles was shut in for days with a sore throat. He liked the Lilliputian lilt it gave to his voice, after one too many Throat Coats. This is the result.
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Iron Maiden vs. Judas Priest – ROUND ONE: The First Singles
Clearly Judas Priest’s release of “Rocka Rolla” back in 1974 is going to have one hand tied behind its back: Judas Priest was still trying to stoke the flames of metal brutality that Iron Maiden’s “Running Free” was able to warm its way into so easily six years later. But then again, this means Iron Maiden’s metal maniac Rob Halford will get to compete not against the operatically inclined Bruce Dickinson but against Maiden’s original singer, Paul Di’Anno, who to put it charitably “has some really great moments.”
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Help me get back in the good graces of Eventbrite by checking out creepy Christmas songs.
A year or two ago, I wrote this awesome article about bizarre anti-Christmas songs for Eventbrite. And then I kind of ghosted on writing more articles for them because I was trying to keep my day job (which BTW totally failed). Anyway, I tried again recently to write more for Eventbrite, and they were like […]
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